Patrick Bard
photographe et écrivain
Patrick Bard est né en 1958 à Montreuil-sous-Bois. Photojournaliste, romancier, écrivain-voyageur, il a notamment travaillé sur la banlieue, les frontières et les routes. Son premier roman, La Frontière, a reçu le prix Michel-Lebrun (2002), le prix Brigada 21 (Espagne, 2005) et le prix Ancres noires (2006). Son dernier roman, Poussières d’exil, est paru en avril dernier aux éditions du Seuil. Membre de la Maison de photographes signatures-photographies.com, il mène un travail personnel sur la problématique de l’eau en Amazonie et sur les peuples autochtones des Amériques. Son travail photographique a été exposé au Centre Pompidou, à la Grande Halle de la Villette, mais aussi au Mexique, en Espagne, en Angleterre, aux États-Unis… Avec son épouse, Marie-Berthe Ferrer, il arpente l’Amérique latine depuis de nombreuses années. Ses œuvres ont été acquises par plusieurs musées et collections privées.
Mon neveu Jeanne
Patrick Bard
Since 1983, photographer and writer Patrick Bard has been photographing his nephew. He began, without really knowing why, when his nephew was sixteen. At the time, he was called Jean-Pierre.
After becoming a truck driver in Sarcelles, he married young and had two children. When his relationship to gender began to change in the mid-1990s, Patrick Bard continued to take pictures of him. Or rather, of her. Because Jean-Pierre officially became Jeanne in 2001. Jeanne dated both men and women, and finally fell in love with a woman in 2008. Two years later, Jeanne decided to transition back to male and reversed her gender identity.
More than anything, his nephew Jeanne decided that the question of gender wasn't fixed and that it wasn't an issue for him. My Nephew Jeanne is a book where the reader follows the narrative from the writer's perspective, written in a literary style: from his nephew's growing awareness to his unwavering determination, against all odds, to change his body and become a woman. Unusually for a book about gender, the reader returns to his male identity after all the struggles to embrace femininity. The text, accompanied by photographs by Patrick Bard, as well as photographs from Jean-Pierre/Jeanne's family album, allows the reader to intimately follow the life of this character.
Mon neveu Jeanne
17 x 24 cm, 144 pages printed in four-color process, 50 reproductions, paperback with flaps.
Graphic design: Danish Pastry Design
ISBN: 9782919507436